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Every week inexperienced real estate consumers – home buyers, sellers, investors, tenants – make dreadful mistakes. Most mistakes are caused by two factors – the advice from agents (which is in the best interests of agents) and by the consumers’ naivety.

When it comes to the value of our homes, most of us are hugely optimistic. Our place is better than next door. It’s got better features; it’s better built and, of course, it’s in a better location.

Real estate is full of myths and misinformation. Unless things go wrong, myths can go undetected. Home sellers may never realise they have been over-charged or under-sold

VPA – ‘Vendor Paid Advertising’. It’s now the most common scam in real estate. More than 90 per cent of agents perpetrate this scam.

Most real estate agents have three characteristics: Greedy, Lazy and Stupid.

If you want to sell your home for the best price, there is one simple rule you must follow. Put a price on it.

Zac is a Sydney schoolteacher, one of the best. Zac cares about the children with whom he spends each day. Indeed, he cares so much that he takes extra courses (outside the school or Education Department) on how to be a better teacher.

If you’re selling your home, the first thing you’ll likely hear in many areas (not all) right now is that “the market is bad”. Or that “prices have dropped”. And who will give you that sad and bad news?

Famed psychologist (and lover of Ayn Rand) Nathaniel Branden, once wrote: “Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

WARNING (to self): This article will make agents hate me (more than they do now). I don’t care. I only care about the home sellers of Australia, most of whom are overcharged by thousands of dollars each.